Question: How do direct and reflected lights combine?

Answer: When direct and reflected light meet, each Sefira of light enters all the Sefirot, in a way similar to the interference of waves, where many waves overlap one another. Due to this, we go deeper into the plan of creation, into the Creator, attain His original desire, from which this superimposition of waves and individual Sefirot emerged.

Going from the particular to the general, you delve into this upper generalization and attain His thought and intention regarding the creatures. Upon attaining His action, you become the same.

Direct and reflected light is your work in relation to others. The nine Sefirot of the direct light that reach your Malchut arise from your inclusion in the environment. Otherwise, you would not be able to reveal the direct light. You reveal it only if you are connected to the group.

You were able to connect with the environment and reveal the direct light in it by making a restriction on your desire.

First, you need to reach a state where you want to connect with your environment and discover the evil in yourself, the desire to use everyone. You pray for a good desire, and after much effort, you gain the force of restriction and neutralize your egoism toward others. After that, you ask for the power to bestow to others. You begin to discover a connection exists between you.

In the connection between you and others, you begin to reveal the direct light shining on you from there. Because your desire is restricted, the light can shine on you. It shines on you in the measure of this restriction, to the extent you can avoid egoistic pleasure from this connection, the warmth and love of others, and their participation.

In addition to this restriction, you must build a screen that determines how you will behave with your friends and how you will give to the Creator, to Keter, through them. This is how you develop the system of your response to the Creator, the system of reflected light.

Waves of direct light come to you from above, and the reflected light rises from below and overlays the direct light like overlapping waves, complementing it. Moreover, each wave gets its own special form, passing through a special opening, desire. It turns out that you, with all your desires, are included in all the properties and desires of everyone else. And when you eventually reach Keter, you create a small semblance of the Creator out of yourself. This is called reflected light. And there, in Keter, you and He merge.

But all this is initially expressed in connection with others; otherwise, you will not feel either direct light or create reflected light. We are unable to act in relation to the Creator. We act within a general broken desire, striving to unite with it, be included in it.

We have no other place to act except our broken desires, which are presented to us in the form of society. The Creator is an accumulation of all these desires, a hidden source that controls us. Our task is to respond to His governance and come to Him, then He will be revealed. That is, the whole job is to penetrate others’ desires.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/12, Baal HaSulam “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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